Local social notes include dinners, marriages and moves
The Tuesday Thimble Club held its annual Christmas dinner at Mrs. Joshua Beasley’s home with twenty three members present. A double wedding is planned for Saturday at Bloomfield with Miss Riddle and her fiancé. Multiple residents move to new homes or attend family events in Carlisle Paxton and surrounding areas.
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Joshua Beasley
W T. Douthitt
Terre Haute
Earl Douthitt
Chicago
Col
R. F. Knotts
Bessie Knotts
Frank Buckley
Monnette
Harry T. Alumbaugh
Buckley
Carlisle
Ella Markee
Alumbaugh
Charley Bottorff
W. G. Dudley
Victrola
Victor Records
Viccor Records
CADDOCK AGAIN SETS SIGHTS ON HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
Earl Caddock of Iowa former world heavyweight champion returns to action after a Montana ranch rest to reclaim the title from Joe Stecher of Nebraska. Gene Melady of Omaha continues managing the former champ.
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Earl Caddock
Iowa
France
Montana
Joe Stecher
Nebraska
Gene Melady
Omaha Stockman
Lighting in Ancient Days in Crete 14 B C
Ancient lamps made of stone and clay in Crete around 14 B C were low open vessels with circular depressions to hold a floating wick. Many lamps had a high foot enabling rest on the floor or on a tube, illustrating portable designs.
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Crete
Classified Want Ad Rates for Sullivan County
Advertisements in this column cost one cent per word per insertion reaching Sullivan County farmers. The notice outlines the pricing model and target audience.
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Sullivan County
Auto top and harness repairs by John A. Mattix
Winter is coming and John A. Mattix offers repairs for auto tops side curtains storm fronts and a full line of auto robes and horse phonets including harness goods.
Guaranteed Hosiery Sales Ad from Darby PA
We guarantee 36.00 per week full time or 75c an hour spare time selling Guaranteed Hos iery. Agents earning 75.00 to 100.00 weekly. Good hosiery is an absolute necessity and sells easily for large profits. Experience unnecessary. Hagle Hosiery Company, Darby, PA.
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Hagle Hosiery Company
Darby
Peach Trees For Sale From Monroe Michigan Nursery
Northern grown peach trees offered by Greening's BIG Nurseries in Monroe Michigan. Highest grade guaranteed with prices available before purchase. Samples mailed upon interest in 200 trees or more.
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Greening
Monroe
Michigan
For Sale Lumber at Saw Mill Near Merom Station
Lumber of all kinds offered at a saw mill located one and a half miles northeast of Merom Station. Interested buyers may contact Cary Bogard in Merom or Frank Benson in Shelburn by phone.
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Merom Station
Cary Bogard
Merom
Frank Benson
Shelburn
Louisville businessman W T Leahy visits on mission
W T Leahy of Louisville Kentucky formerly of Sullivan is in town on a business mission as he conducts inquiries and meetings.
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W. T. Leahy
Louisville, Ky
Sullivan
Recruit Notice From Western Boiler Pipe Company
Mose Allen, sales manager at Western Boiler Pipe Company in Monmouth Illinois, seeks a partner to represent the firm in Sullivan County. The message promises no upfront obligations beyond honest character and suggests the role is flexible despite age. It ends with a provocative line about Brigham Young's wives.
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Sullivan County
Brigham Young
Mose Allen
Western Boiler Pipe Company
Monmouth
Illinois
Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents
Short chronicle of Ulysses S. Grant with items from 1877 to 1884. Notes Grant's world tour 1877, loss of nomination in 1880, Grant & Ward banking venture, 1884 business failure, and his memoir writing. He suffered cancer, was revived to General rank in 1825, and died July 23 at Mt. McGregor, New York, aged sixty three.
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G—Grant
Grant & Ward
New York
Grant
Congress
Mt. McGregor
N. Y
Hen Grant
White House
Nellie Sartoris
England
James Russell Lowell
London
Tokyo
Republican Party
Napoleon
Wall Street
William H. Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue Palace
Simon Bolivar Buckner
West Point
Foeman Ait Fort Donaldson
Grant the general whose life ends in quiet courage
A retrospective portrait recounts Ulysses S. Grant after his White House years. He travels abroad, faces political entanglements, loses fortune in Grant & Ward, writes the Personal Memoirs atop illness, and dies at Mt. McGregor after a final message of unity with Buckner.
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Daniel Greens
Julius Harry Shoe Co
Caddock
John A. Mattix
James Morgan
Ulysses S. Grant
Cadwell Music House
N. Court St
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